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Any links where I can buy/download will be much appreciated, thanks in advance!
> How to blow soap bubbles 20-feet long and more, by architect David Stein, inventor of the Bubble Thing (which comes attached to the book)
The girl in the books is just named Ruby, the books really don't have a connection to Ruby the Programming Language.
Books are always boring, especially ebooks. Games can not be creative, except of maybe sport activities. Just go somewhere outdoors and who knows maybe you will manage to buy some good books or maybe you will manage to find some street games to explore. Walking and talking about the right things is the very source of our culture, Pythagoreans used to educate themselves in this way.
If you are just going to throw at her the device which is got to be charged with all the best links you will find here - it won't work, those devices are made in such a way to make the user to be used nowadays.
Turing Tumble teaches you to build a binary calculator using marbles and bits of plastic. At her age, it will require you to be pretty hands on, but it’s away from the computer.
Board games with lots of rules can be good for understanding complex systems. Catan and Spacebase, for example.
Playgrounds on Apple devices is great. Full on coding but in an interesting way. Raspberry Pi foundation has a number of projects for Scratch and Python. There’s a book about coding for kids where you hack away at a Python computer game.
Steam has some games for teaching coding. Human Resource Machine is great.
ChatGPT and Dall-E also get lots of smiles. Interact with the API to build a chatbot.
If you intend to play something with her, I can recommend the board game Carcassone. Even if it's not children's game, it's perfectly playable for a 7-year old with some adjustments to the scoring (skip field-scoring). No reading or calculation apart from simple addition is needed.
How about just talking as much time as possible? Books are always boring, especially ebooks. Games can not be creative, except of maybe sport activities. Just go somewhere outdoors and who knows maybe you will manage to buy some good books or maybe you will manage to find some street games to explore. Walking and talking about the right things is the very source of our culture, Pythagoreans used to educate themselves…
> How about just talking as much time as possible?
If OPs seven year old is anything like mine, this is the default. Getting them to stop talking to you is the trick. Sounds selfish and shitty right? But nobody can talk to a seven year old all day every day while on vacation. "Why don't you just talk for 12 hours a day for an entire week straight?" Ridiculous.
And it's worth noting that the cat is out of the bag by 7: they know video games exist and want to use them. Because so many of them are low quality, parents may have to seek recommendations like this thread.